LiveHelpNow.net Privacy Policy

Welcome to the LiveHelpNow.net Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy applies to you if you are a visitor of LiveHelpNow’s corporate website at www.LiveHelpNow.net . This Privacy Policy also applies to you when you visit LiveHelpNow’s social media web pages located on third-party social media websites (“LiveHelpNow-branded social media pages”). Visitors to LiveHelpNow’s Website and visitors to LiveHelpNow-branded web pages on social media websites are referred to in this policy as “you” or a “LiveHelpNow Visitor”. “You” and “LiveHelpNow Visitor” also refers to users who communicate with LiveHelpNow directly using LiveHelpNow’s communication technology or other engagement technology or services (“LiveHelpNow’s engagement technology”). This Privacy Policy applies regardless of whether you are using a computer, a mobile device or other device.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to visitors to the websites (or social media web pages) of LiveHelpNow’s business customers. For privacy terms applicable to those visitors, please click here.

This Privacy Policy explains how LiveHelpNow may collect, use, and disclose “Personal Information” and other information we obtain through LiveHelpNow’s Website, through LiveHelpNow-branded web pages located on third party social media sites and from communications between you and LiveHelpNow.

Personal Information Defined. LiveHelpNow considers “Personal Information” to include information that alone or when in combination with other information may be used to readily identify or contact you, such as: name, address, email address or phone number. LiveHelpNow does not consider Personal Information to include information that has been anonymized so that it does not allow a third party to easily identify a specific individual.

Use and Acceptance . By using LiveHelpNow’s Website or by using LiveHelpNow-branded social media pages, you agree to this Privacy Policy. In addition, by using LiveHelpNow’s engagement technology to communicate with or engage with LiveHelpNow, you agree to this Privacy Policy. If you do not accept this Privacy Policy, you must not use LiveHelpNow’s Website or LiveHelpNow-branded social media pages, and you must not otherwise use LiveHelpNow’s engagement technology to communicate with or engage with LiveHelpNow.

What information do we collect from LiveHelpNow Visitors and how do we collect such information?

Communication Products. If you engage in a communication with a LiveHelpNow agent using LiveHelpNow’s chat, email, voice or other communication products or services, or if you engage in a pre- or post-interaction survey (“Survey”), you may voluntarily provide, or otherwise be asked to provide, Personal Information, such as your name, contact information and other information to facilitate service. LiveHelpNow maintains transcripts of chats, emails and other written communications that are conducted between you and LiveHelpNow (collectively, “Transcripts”). LiveHelpNow also maintains copies of Surveys and LiveHelpNow may, in accordance with applicable law (including laws related to notice and/or consent), record and maintain recordings of voice communications (“Recordings”). By providing Personal Information and other information via LiveHelpNow’s products or services, you consent to LiveHelpNow collecting and processing such information for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy.

Requests for Information, News and other Content. You may sign up to receive information, news and other content related to new and existing LiveHelpNow products and services, LiveHelpNow events and other information related to LiveHelpNow that may be of interest to you. You will be asked to provide Personal Information, such as contact details and other information, relevant to delivering such news and information. We maintain all such information. Participation in one or more Communities offered by LiveHelpNow. You may participate in one or more communities (e.g. the Labs Community, Developer Community, Partner Community, Customer Community) offered by LiveHelpNow on LiveHelpNow’s Website. You may be asked to provide Personal Information, such as contact details, and other information prior to becoming a member of any such community. We maintain all such information. In the event that you participate in any message board or blog on LiveHelpNow’s Website, please see the terms below under the heading “LiveHelpNow Community, Message Boards, Blogs”. Other terms may apply to your use of one or more of the LiveHelpNow communities. Such terms are made available when you sign up to become a member of any community and, thereafter, in the member sections of LiveHelpNow’s Website and/or in your member account.

Technical Support Requests. . If you need technical support related to our services or LiveHelpNow’s Website, you will need to complete a form for the purposes of defining and clarifying your technical support request. When submitting a technical support request, you are asked to provide Personal Information, including an email address, a URL of their website and a description of the issue. We maintain copies of all technical support requests and other information submitted with or related to such requests.

Promotions. From time to time, we may offer promotions to LiveHelpNow Visitors. If we do, and if you wish to participate, you may be required to provide Personal Information, such as contact information and other information. We maintain such information.

Recruitment and Job Applications. Personal Information such as that contained on a resume or curriculum vitae may be submitted to LiveHelpNow via LiveHelpNow’s Website in connection with a job offered by LiveHelpNow. Any information supplied by or on behalf of an applicant may be maintained by LiveHelpNow as well as third parties performing recruitment and/or other employment-related services. Please note that LiveHelpNow may have additional privacy terms that apply to job applicants. Such terms will be made available when an applicant applies for a job or, if applicable, when an applicant otherwise accesses his or her job account.

Browser Information and Usage Information. We log web browser information (e.g., Internet Protocol addresses and browser types) and other usage information from LiveHelpNow’s Website and otherwise via LiveHelpNow’s engagement technology. Such information may include page view tallies, time spent on each page, geographic location information, page browsing information and operating system information. If you are using a mobile or other device to visit LiveHelpNow’s Website or otherwise communicate or engage with LiveHelpNow via LiveHelpNow’s engagement technology, we may collect hardware information related to the device used by you. Your browser may be set to limit or prevent any of the browser information described above from being transmitted. If so, certain communication tools and other features and functions on LiveHelpNow’s Website or offered in LiveHelpNow’s engagement technology may not be available to you. LiveHelpNow may review and run reports related to the browsing, purchasing and online behavior and activities of visitors to LiveHelpNow’s Website and visitors to LiveHelpNow’s branded web pages on third party social media websites. LiveHelpNow maintains records of such usage and reports. Also, LiveHelpNow may obtain from a third party data source commercially available information related to a LiveHelpNow Visitor. LiveHelpNow maintains copies of such information. As mentioned below, LiveHelpNow is not responsible for the privacy practices of any third party.

Cookies. LiveHelpNow’s services use cookies and other technologies such as pixel tags to collect and store information that is generated automatically as you use the services, including your preferences and anonymous usage statistics. Browsers are usually set to accept cookies. However, if you prefer not to receive cookies, you typically have the option of setting your browser to refuse cookies. If your browser is set to refuse cookies, it is possible that some of the functionality offered by LiveHelpNow will not be available or will not work as effectively for you. By providing Personal Information and other information via LiveHelpNow’s engagement technology and otherwise via LiveHelpNow’s Website, you consent to LiveHelpNow collecting and processing such information for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy.

How does LiveHelpNow use and disclose information it collects from LiveHelpNow Visitors?

Transcripts, Surveys and Recordings. LiveHelpNow may use Transcripts, Surveys and Recordings for purposes of performing or delivering a service to you, providing maintenance or support services to you, for training and quality assurance purposes, for purposes of improving our services and for other lawful purposes. Third party service providers retained by LiveHelpNow to perform agent or operator services or other services on behalf of LiveHelpNow may also have access to Transcripts, Surveys and Recordings for purposes of performing or delivering a service to you, providing maintenance or support services to you, and/or for training and quality assurance purposes.

Browser Information and Cookies. We use browser information, cookies and pixel tags to determine whether a chat, voice or email button or other communication service should be deployed on your browser (in order to allow LiveHelpNow to offer assistance or offers to you or otherwise engage with you). We may also use browser information, cookies and pixel tags to help us adjust and improve our product and service offerings, to allow LiveHelpNow to recognize whether you are a return visitor, for quality assurance and training purposes, to gather broad demographic information, to administer and optimize our services, to deliver marketing or other materials to you and for other lawful purposes.

Aggregate Information. We may aggregate information so that it is not Personal Information and we may use such aggregated information, and share such aggregated information with our customers and third party service providers, for training and quality assurance purposes, for purposes of delivering services to you and our other customers, for purposes of improving our services and for other lawful purposes.

Third Parties. LiveHelpNow does not sell, trade or rent Personal Information provided by you in any Transcript, Survey or Recording for direct marketing or any other purpose, except as provided in this Privacy Policy or with your permission. LiveHelpNow does not divulge the content of Transcripts, Surveys or Recordings to third parties other than to service providers performing services on behalf of LiveHelpNow, others as provided in this Privacy Policy or with your permission. Certain third parties may provide services that connect to or leverage LiveHelpNow’s services. As mentioned below, LiveHelpNow is not responsible for the privacy practices of any third party. LiveHelpNow uses third party data facilities, web and data analytics providers, and other third party service providers (including credit card processors) to perform services related to our website and services that are routinely handled by such providers. Such providers may store and, if applicable, process Personal Information and other information in keeping with the service that they provide.

Technical Support Requests. If you submit a technical support request, we may use and maintain such request in order to respond to the questions posed, improve our product and service offerings, for training and quality assurance purposes, for record keeping purposes and for other lawful purposes.

Offers. We may use Personal Information provided by you and other information in order to keep you posted on product and service offerings, important announcements, updates to product offerings and events. We may also use such information for purposes of improving our product and service offerings, for training and quality assurance purposes, for record keeping purposes and for other lawful purposes.

Promotions. From time to time, we may offer promotions on LiveHelpNow’s Website or via LiveHelpNow-branded social media pages or otherwise via LiveHelpNow’s engagement technology. If we do, and if you wish to participate, you may be required to provide Personal Information, such as contact information and other information. We will use and maintain such information for purposes of delivering the promotion and for purposes of improving our product and service offerings, for record keeping purposes, for data analysis purposes and for other lawful purposes.

Job Applications. If you submit a resume, curriculum vitae and/or job application via LiveHelpNow’s Website or otherwise to LiveHelpNow via LiveHelpNow’s engagement technology, LiveHelpNow and its third party service providers may contact you and distribute and use this information throughout LiveHelpNow (subject to applicable law) for purposes of considering you for possible employment with LiveHelpNow. We may also keep your information on file for future consideration.

Legal Requirement to Disclose/Discretion to Disclose. LiveHelpNow may disclose your information including Personal Information if LiveHelpNow reasonably believes that disclosure: (i) is necessary in order to comply with a legal process (such as a court order, subpoena, search warrant, etc.) or other legal requirement of any governmental authority, (ii) would potentially mitigate our liability in an actual or potential lawsuit, (iii) is necessary to enforce this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use or any other agreement in place between you and LiveHelpNow, (iv) is intended to investigate and prevent unauthorized transactions or other illegal activities, or (v) is otherwise necessary or appropriate to protect our rights or property (including our rights related to payment for services), or the rights or property of any person or entity.

Special Notice to LiveHelpNow Visitors located in countries other than the United States

Because LiveHelpNow operates globally, we may transfer Personal Information about you within our global operations to fulfill LiveHelpNow’s obligations to you, but always subject to the requirements of applicable data protection laws and this Privacy Policy. LiveHelpNow entities located in countries other than the United States may have supplemental privacy policies that may apply in their countries of operation.

If you are visiting from the European Union or other regions with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, including those whose privacy laws may be more restrictive than U.S. law, please note that you are transferring your personal data to the United States to LiveHelpNow. By providing your personal data you consent to that transfer.

LiveHelpNow Community, Message Boards, Blogs If you use any communities, groups or spaces on the LiveHelpNow’s Website, you should be aware that any information you submit there may be read, collected, copied and used by other users, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. LiveHelpNow is not responsible for the information that you choose to submit or post on any of these areas of LiveHelpNow’s Website or on third party websites and LiveHelpNow is not responsible for how any such information may be used by others or responded to by others. LiveHelpNow’s privacy obligations set forth in this Privacy Policy are not applicable to your use of any community, message board or blog on LiveHelpNow’s Website or any third party website. Additional terms made available via any such community, message board and/or blog may apply to your use of any of the foregoing.

How does LiveHelpNow protect your information?

Security. Data transmissions over the Internet cannot be guaranteed to be fully and absolutely secure. Our website and our services have security measures in place designed to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Our security measures include the following.

Encryption and Firewalls. Chat transcripts are encrypted during transmission. We use standard Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption that encodes information for such transmissions. Transcripts are maintained and archived on secure servers. Access to such data is protected by multi-layered security controls including firewalls, role-based access controls and passwords. Data is backed up daily and archives are stored off-site in a secure location.

Additional terms that may apply to your information Safe Harbor. LiveHelpNow complies with the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of Personal Information from European Union member countries. The company has certified that it adheres to the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access, and enforcement. To learn more about the Safe Harbor program, and to view the company's certification, please visit http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/.

Third-Party Websites. LiveHelpNow is not responsible for and does not control the privacy practices of any business customer of LiveHelpNow or any other third party. We encourage you to review the privacy practices of each third party.

Business Transfers. In the event that all or substantially all of LiveHelpNow’s assets have been acquired, or in the event of any merger, bankruptcy or reorganization involving LiveHelpNow, all Transcripts, Recordings and Surveys, as well as all other information about you and your use of our services will likely be included in the acquired or merged assets.

Choice Regarding Personal Information. If you elect to engage in any communication using our services, or submit any request or application to LiveHelpNow via LiveHelpNow’s Website, it is up to you to decide what, if any, information to provide. Depending on the circumstances it may not be possible to communicate with you or address all of your questions without providing some information. Nevertheless, if you do not wish to furnish certain information, then you should not do so.

Changes to your Personal Information. If you receive marketing or advertising communications from LiveHelpNow, you may, at anytime, opt out of receiving further marketing and advertising communications from LiveHelpNow by clicking on a link on the bottom of the applicable marketing or advertising email. You may not be able to opt out of receiving important (non-advertising and non-marketing) announcements and notices from LiveHelpNow. New Uses of Information. From time to time, LiveHelpNow may use information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our Privacy Policy. If our information practices change regarding information previously collected, LiveHelpNow will make reasonable efforts to provide notice and obtain consent to any such uses as may be required by law.

We recommend that you review this policy periodically, as we may update it from time to time. Your use of LiveHelpNow’s Website, any service offered on the website or any of LiveHelpNow’s engagement technology to communicate with LiveHelpNow (whether on LiveHelpNow’s Website or on a third party website) following a change to this Privacy Policy represents your consent to the new Privacy Policy to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Definitions

Cookies are pieces of information that some websites transfer to a visitor’s web browser accessing the website and are used for record-keeping purposes by many websites. Use of cookies makes web-surfing easier by performing certain functions such as saving passwords, lists of potential purchases and personal preferences regarding the use of the particular website, and ensuring that the user does not see the same ad repeatedly.

Data masking is the process of obscuring (masking) specific data elements within a communication or storage device. Once data is masked the masking cannot be reversed.

Encryption is the process of transforming information into unreadable text so that it is only legible to those possessing an encryption key. The process of making encrypted information readable again is referred to as decryption.

Pixel tags are small graphic images that are embedded in a web page or email for purposes of tracking activity on web pages or whether a user has opened or accessed an email. A pixel tag may be set to identify on what browser and computer it was viewed, whether that browser has cookies received from a server associated with the pixel tag, and whether the web page or email with the pixel tag was forwarded or copied.

Web browser is a software program that allows a user to access, retrieve and view information on the World Wide Web. Examples of browsers include Internet Explorer, FireFox, Google Chrome and Safari.

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